Hopeless (Chestnut Springs #5)
Elsie Silver
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· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 146 ratings · Published: 13 Oct 2023
I’m the outcast bartender, a shy girl from the wrong side of the tracks.
He’s thirty-five and all man, and I’m twenty-two and all… virgin.
He’s also my fiancé. Correction: my fake fiancé.
We start out as a bet. He doesn’t believe that anyone holds my last name against me. So he offers me his to prove a point.
It’s win-win. He gets a break from his concerned family’s prying, and I get a chance to shed my family’s reputation while I save up to ditch this small town.
He says all I have to do is wear his ring, follow his lead, and pretend I can’t keep my hands off of him in public.
But it’s what happens between us in private that blurs all those carefully drawn lines.
It’s what transpires behind closed doors that doesn’t feel like pretending at all.
This engagement was supposed to be for show. This agreement? It has an end date.
He once told me he’d never fall in love.
And yet here I am, head over heels for my fake fiancé.
Tagged as:
- age gap 21
- virgin heroine 20
- dual pov 19
- contemporary 18
- fake relationship 18
- disabilities & scars 18
- small town 17
- tortured hero 16
- working class heroine 14
- friends to lovers 13
- poor heroine 12
- first person pov 11
- possessive hero 11
- new adult 11
- military 11
- tortured heroine 10
- caretaking 10
- grumpy & sunshine 8
- men in uniform 8
- western 8
- slow burn 8
- independent heroine 8
- spanking 7
- forced proximity 7
- rich hero 7
- alpha male 6
- class difference 6
- male pov 5
- angst 5
- workplace/office 5
- praise kink 4
- take-charge heroine 4
- hurt/comfort 2
- m-f romance 2
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